An in depth research of the fingers and armour of Teutonic troops in Medieval Prussia. A dialogue of the assets is by means of a weapon by means of weapon account of protecting fingers (helmet armour and defend) and offensive hands (sword, aspect arm, employees guns, butt guns, taking pictures guns, hand firearm and knightly belt).

Tolkien stories: An Annual Scholarly assessment offers the transforming into physique of serious observation and scholarship on either J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his educational paintings in literary and linguistic fields.

This quantity on Appolonius of Rhodes, whose "Argonautica" is the only full-length epic to outlive from the Hellenistic interval, contains articles by way of 14 students from throughout Europe and the USA. Their contributions conceal quite a lot of concerns from the historical past of the textual content and the issues of the poet's biography via questions of fashion, literary method and intertextual relatives to the epic's library and cultural reception.

Pindar and the Emergence of Literature locations Pindar within the context of the evolution of Archaic Greek poetics. whereas proposing an in-depth advent to diversified points of Pindar's artwork (authorial metapoetics, imagery, style hybridization, faith, social context, and dialect), it seeks to set up a center floor among cultural contextualism and literary background, being attentive either to poetry's ancient milieu and its uncanny ability to suffer in time.

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20 The reasons for this ‘elevation to the honor of the altars,’ since it destroyed the correspondence between heaven and earth, must have been compelling, but are scarcely indicated. 23 The presence of the saints’ virtus in relics afﬁrmed itself in a special manner in the ‘whole’ and ‘uncorrupted’ body. This reactivated the idea, fundamental for those religions which bury, rather than burn, corpses, that the bones are the seat of life and that their undamaged preservation is a condition for their resurrection.